CHALLENGES
All sorts of extraordinary individuals are doing all sorts of extraordinary things to raise money for CRUK, under the CASCAID banner. Take a look below to see how people are raising money. This is a great place to get some ideas for your own fundraising pursuits. If inspiration fails to strike, MiP are only a call away with plenty of help and ideas!
Featured Challenges
Investec take on the Tough Mudder
Warren Tonkinson – man of iron!
Warren completed his CASCAID half-ironman triathlon challenge last weekend. He’s done a lot of crazy challenges in the…
Charlie Wilson’s shooting day
The clay shooting day organised by Charlie Wilson was a great success. Congratulations to the winning team, comprising…
T.Rowe Price volunteer for CRUK
Some of the T.Rowe Price sales team took over the Stevenage CRUK shop as part of the CASCAID…
Anne-Marie rows from Wales to Ireland
Toni Craig’s Spartan Challenge
Janus Henderson sales & marketing Monopoly challenge
Ravenscroft Walkers
Farquhar’s Thames battle
Square Mile’s Jamie took on the Thames in style in early August. He swam 14k in the Henley…
Teamspirit Skydive
Tamsin battles Nessy
Munro vs Munro
Libertine conquer the 3 peaks
Led by their MD Mark Brandis, ad agency Libertine took on the 3 Peaks Challenge. This photo shows them…
Keep on walking: the Hutson-Bryden 200km
Tuesday 30 May saw Derek Bryden and Mark Hutson from Janus Henderson set off on a 200km walk…from their…
Sam Gold’s amazing wine evening
Janus Henderson Transatlantic Tour
On merger day, hundreds of people from Janus and Henderson came together to raise money for CASCAID, aiming…
Two Tommys walk the Thames
The wonderful Two Tommys from River & Mercantile (Tom de Lisle and Mark Thomas) walked the entire length of…
Ben Burns’ Kilo
Netball Mania
A number of groups put together a netball tournament in aid of CASCAID. Date: 23rd June Time: 6pm Venue:…
30 days, 300k, £30k raised for Jeremy Roberts and team
BlackRock’s Jeremy Roberts committed to a 10k run, cycle or row every single day in May. Jeremy recruited 30…
Ventoux was conquered
Schroders’ Paul Truscott took one of France’s toughest climbs as his challenge. During their three day trip to Provence,…
Coast-to-coast with Garry Whitefield
We have another “mamil” in our midst. Garry Whitefield and a friend cycled coast-to-coast in aid of CASCAID. Well done…
VouchedFor Beat The Tough Mudder
Fundhouse Fun
AlphaGen Lakes Challenge
Ravenscroft walkers
Helen Wagstaff’s 500k Challenge
Darts around the clock with Darius
The Great CASCAID Bake-Off
Sophie Burke from M&G led an industry bake-off. Teams competed to see who could bake the best goodies. One…
Dynamic Planner Risk Challenge
The team at Dynamic Planner have cleverly aligned their challenge with their business. The more money they raise, the riskier…
The Next Generation Quiz Night
Zoe Ng of Henderson, Katie Wagstaff of Schroders and Giles Whittingham of GAM are part of our Young…
Investec scale 3 peaks…with a difference
In March, Simon Brazier and his team from Investec scaled Lion’s Head, Devil’s Peak and Table Mountain: the…
Newton Walk the Wight
Hanneke Smits invited 50 people from Newton to walk across the Isle of Wight, the equivalent of a marathon….
Ping Pong Bailey raises £12k
Morningstar Chicago to Sydney
Morningstar have set up static bikes in their London office and are aiming to cycle 25,000; the equivalent…
Mountain Goats
Aviva Investors sales team scale the heights
Wharrier’s boots are made for walking
Liv and Kim’s million metres
500k for Charles Davies
Investec Asset Management’s Charles has a 500k challenge. First up, a 100k ski in a day (along with Helen…
RWC’s 24-hour pedibus
Gary Tuffield, James Tollemache and the team at RWC have given this a lot of thought and devised a…
Teamspirit Walk the World
Jim’s top 100
Rob&Gary’s Robin Round Britain
26 miles of pain for Rainbow
New York, New York for JPM
J.P.Morgan Asset Managements’s UK retail team are cycling the distance from London to New York. Four static bikes…
Matt Oomen’s Velodrome-a-thon
Cycle mad (or just mad?) Matt has arranged for various teams at BNY Mellon to compete in a 24-hour…
Bond Vigilantes support CASCAID
To celebrate 10 years of their Bond Vigilantes blog and raise money, Jim Leaviss and the M&G team…
“Trouser” tees it up
Mark “Trouser” Allpress has, shockingly, chosen golf as his fundraising activity. He and the Liontrust team are organising…
Jasper and the skydivers
Jasper and his colleagues are going to jump out of a plane. Yep. There’s not a lot more…
Tom Becket’s footie tournament
Tom is setting up an industry football tournament. Held in September, this will see teams from across asset management…
Comedy with Katy
Katy Cole is organising a comedy evening as her challenge. Who doesn’t love a bit of comedy? Katy will raise…
4 men, 4 nations, 4 a good cause
Henderson Transatlantic Tour
Henderson are getting together with their new colleagues across the pond to do a virtual cycle from London to…
Kate Rowland walking marathon
Kate has gathered a team together to walk a marathon along the Portuguese coastline. More info to follow…
Pinner’s pins get put to the test
Kathryn Pinner, famous for her hatred of running, set out to run 5k every single day in June. I’m…
Incisive Media exercise their brains
As their challenge, Incisive organised a massive quiz night at The Brewery, drawing in journalists, PR teams and…
The Ptarmigan Media mega triathlon…
Tonkinson’s a man of iron
Warren loves a large-scale challenge, having canoed the Thames and cycled the length of the country in the…
Is that Alastair Mundy or Garry Kasparov?
Alastair is challenging his grey matter and is undertaking a chess marathon of 500 games. I think some…
Cazenove take on the Thames
Darren Morgan and Rory Cumming from Cazenove Capital put their imagination to the test and came up with an unusual…
Lift heavy, be happy, say Hooper, Gent and co
JP certified insane!
Cycle mania with Standard Life
Richard House, Katie Trowsdale, Michael Beveridge and team plan to cycle between two of Standard Life’s offices in…
Square Mile are feeling peaky
The lovely team at Square Mile took on the Three Peaks challenge in June. Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scafell…
Walk2Work day – 31st October 2017
Mark is challenging the industry to walk to work. For one day only: 31st October. Walk to work…
Lazard flyers
CEO abseil with Andrew Formica
On a very windy day in June, a team of intrepid industry figures abseiled the Broadgate Tower, all…
Waggy’s wheels
Phil Wagstaff and a team are cycling round Lake Geneva. That’s 200 kilometres. Given that Phil is currently…
Anna O’Donoghue takes on The Channel
On our New York conferences, Anna was nicknamed Billy The Fish as she always took to the pool…
The London marathon
Team Aberdeen aiming to conquer heights
Team Aberdeen climbed Britain’s highest peak, Ben Nevis! The team included Graham Duce, Justin Jones, Jamie Niven and…
Carols with (Saint) Nick
Fancy a singalong? Join Nick Hutton from BlackRock in a good old-fashioned Christmas carol concert. This will be…